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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: C-sections new?
Message-ID: <2403@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 14-Jul-86 00:52:29 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 14 00:52:29 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 15-Jul-86 01:11:51 EDT
References: <684@bu-cs.UUCP> <927@mmm.UUCP> <262@dmcnh.UUCP> <994@utastro.UUCP>
Reply-To: chris@maryland.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Organization: University of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Sci.
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>In article <262@dmcnh.UUCP> mark@dmcnh.UUCP (Mark Roddy) writes,
in part:
>>The greatest advance in medical technology has actually been simple
>>sanitary practices, i.e. separation of sewage from drinking water,
>>not gadgetry.  Sanitation requires no advanced technology whatsoever.

In article <994@utastro.UUCP> ethan@utastro.UUCP (Ethan Vishniac) writes:
>I am not sure what you mean by advanced technology, but providing clean
>and plentiful water for urban populations is a major technological
>achievement.

These days, doing *anything* for (or to) an urban population is a
major technologial achievement. :-)  It is not difficult to supply
relatively-clean water to many rural populations.  Some forms of
sanitation---e.g., 99.9975% particulate-free air---are technologically
difficult, but many are not, and those are likely the ones of which
mark@dmcnh.UUCP speaks.  Through use (and misuse) of technology,
as well as through sheer concentration of people, large urban
centers create new problems, many requiring technological solutions
(large water purification plants), or more radical ones (decentralise
the population).
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